MURDEROUS: Former A.G. Barr says Trump wanted to EXECUTE his enemies
Former Attorney General William Barr has made it clear that Donald Trump should, in his view, never again be allowed access to power — but that was before Trump secured the nomination. Now, he’s on an apology tour, making excuses not only for everything Trump has done to America but for the decision to support him for the presidency again.
The general theme of Barr’s arguments is that sure, he admits Trump called for executing people and attempted a coup, but he wasn’t successful at either, so it’s all okay.
Barr was confronted by a story shared by former Trump insider Alyssa Farrah-Griffin, who alleges that the then-president called for an execution when he realized someone had leaked to the press that he retreated to a safe room under the White House during protests in the area.
He said he couldn’t remember that specific incident, but he also wouldn’t deny it, and in fact, admitted that this was a typical sort of thing for Trump to suggest. He said:
“I don’t dispute it. The president would lose his temper and say things like that. I doubt he would have actually carried it out…He would say things like, similar to that…but I wouldn’t take him literally every time he did it.”
Why not?
Barr says, “Because at the end of the day, it wouldn’t be carried out.”
BREAKING: According to former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr , Donald Trump on multiple occasions floated the idea of executing individuals who disagreed with him. Every American needs to see this so they know how dangerous Trump is. pic.twitter.com/UW5pQbxCxv
— Biden’s Wins (@BidensWins) April 27, 2024
That’s not all Barr defended. Pressed on whether he can really justify supporting a candidate who is facing 88 felony charges and disrupted the peaceful transfer of power, the former Attorney General was all-in.
Barr claims to genuinely believe that Biden’s administration is somehow more dangerous than Trump’s actions.
CNN Anchor Kaitlyn Collins pressed him, asking, “Worse than subverting the peaceful transfer of power?”
Barr didn’t deny Trump attempted exactly that. His defense was, “Well, did he succeed?”
Kaitlan Collins: “So you’re voting for someone…tried to subvert the peaceful transfer of power, who can't even achieve his policies, that lied about the election…Someone who’s facing 88 criminal counts?”
Bill Barr: “The answer to your question is YES”pic.twitter.com/KxCYomILe7
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) April 27, 2024
In fact, the former Attorney General made a valiant effort to list the actions that he believes are more of a threat to democracy than Donald Trump.
They include an imaginary open border (he doesn’t seem to have any comment on Trump leaning on House Republicansto stop border legislation though), regulations on what appliances one can have (regulations that also don’t aRepublicans to), and regulations on the kind of vehicle one can own (by which he seems to mean updated emissions standards and support for electric vehicles, not actual prohibitions).
Watch him work really hard to come up with that short list of made-up problems below.
Barr: We have regulations coming fast and furious. telling people were kind of stoves they can use and what kind of cars they have to drive and eliminating cars and so forth yeah, those are those are the threats to democracy pic.twitter.com/cIZRyVcVyo
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 27, 2024
It’s difficult to take Barr’s apology tour seriously when he struggles to pretend that his invented grievances outweigh the danger of an incipient fascist like Donald Trump to our democracy. He should have been content to simply beg forgiveness for all that he did as Attorney General to enable the former president while he was in office, and kept his voting preferences to himself.
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